Lord Hanningfield jailed for nine months over expenses fraud

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A disgraced peer, a former Tory frontbench spokesman on business and
transport, has been jailed for nine months tor fiddling his parliamentary
expenses.

Lord Hanningfield, 70, falsely claimed for nearly £14,000 for overnight stays
in London when he was not in the capital. His expenses-fiddling included one
occasion in February 2008 when he was actually on board a flight to India.

In May he was found guilty of six counts of false accounting at Chelmsford
Crown Court and yesterday he was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court..

Lord Hanningfield joins four former MPs and a fellow member of the Lords
convicted